Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – What is Sufism A formal Explanation Part 19 The two types of Dhikr
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
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Hamdulillah, we've gotten to out of the 10.
Principles of the path, we've gotten to number 10, which is
the core of Allah subhanaw taala. And reflecting on his creation.
So after discussing that last time, we move on to he's saying
he's going to talk about the two different types of cars and their
benefits. The two types of vehicles broadly speaking, I mean,
there are you talking about various F car that you can do
various phrases and formulas of, of cars, and there's obviously
many, many, that's there's so many of those. But this is speaking
about how to do that. And again, broadly speaking, he's talking
about two he says, with the corona Juan, an oval avec Ruby, Lisa, and
the second is a decree will call essentially, doing vicar directly
by the heart, and the number two is doing vicar with the tongue.
Now, the way this generally works is that the whole point of doing
thicker with the tongue is to make sure that the heart is obviously
part of it. Because if you're just repeating something with the
tongue, and the heart is not involved in that, then you don't
get the same kind of benefits. Because it's the heart that has to
take the benefit, what we're trying to do is we're trying to
charge the heart and nourish the heart. Because vicar is the
cultural club go tool called, which basically means the
nourishment of the heart. So the tongue is just the means to get it
there. That's why it's very easy to become accustomed to doing
vicar with the tongue, and not really take it with the heart and
the heart flying around elsewhere.
That's a very great possibility. That's why, however, it's actually
easier to do thicker with the tongue. Though, though, it's
sometimes not as seen as most effective because you have to
actually bring in both the heart and the tongue together, it's
actually easier because at least you're doing something. Because if
you started by trying to do thicker with the heart, as some
methodologies suggest, anyway, then what happens is that it's
much more complicated, it forces you in it's almost like it throws
you into the deep end, right that do it like this, and makes it
makes us learn from the very complicated way of doing things.
But obviously, there's going to be a greater benefit in that, it's
going to be more impactful, the way some Alama have explained
this, is that to do thicker with the tongue,
with the with the tongue is like taking a pill, a tablet, whereas
doing vicar with the heart is like an intravenous, but
it's not exactly the same, it's just a showing that why you would
do intravenous is obviously because it has a quicker effect.
Then there's other ways of
discussing this as well. And the way you do the thicker also plays
into this
is that at the end of the day, what we're trying to do is to
purify our hearts,
we're trying to purify our heart. Now, just take that as an example
of trying to purify or rather you bought a piece of land, and you
want to make it into a really nice garden, you want to plant some
good trees in there, or you want to put some crops in there? Well,
there's a few things that we're going to have to first do. So if
you have that piece of land and you want to do something on there.
Now there's two ways to there's many ways to do what you have to
do there. One is that you want to first just clean everything out.
And then you want to plant your tree.
What other people do is that they want to make a small clearing,
first, they want to plant their tree, then they want to clear the
rest of it out. Now that's just up to you how you want to work.
Similarly, sometimes if you've got some clutter, some people can't
work, they need to clear the clutter first before they can
actually work. Let's clear the clutter first, then let's do the
work. Other people say it's okay, let me just clear a bit. Let me
start my work. And then I'll clear the rest later. These are just
myths urge different ways and different orders into sort of
different ways of Sufism as well. They use different methodologies,
but that's very broadly speaking here is just saying, well, within
those methodologies, you're going to have some who will start you
off on liquor of the heart first, and then they may have just a bit
of a thicker of the tongue like the Naqshbandi stew, whereas it
looks like majority of others I can't say the majority absolute
majority by through exhaustive research, because there's many
many different ways of doing this. But many others they actually do
they start off with vicar of the tongue so anyway, he also he's
from the Hello Katya Amanda dearest from the Hello Katya. And
he's also seems to be quite aware of the shadow Lee as well. And it
looks like both of them use the tongue first. So he's saying
was the corona wine liquor is of two types. And Owen a VIC Rubin,
listen,
liquor of the tongue, what we're sharing with us here will be diet
says this is basically
this is the methodology of the of the, of the of the people of the
beginning, people who are just sending off, people who are just
starting up, they need to start doing vicar with the tongue, it's
easier to do. So it may be not as effective. Because remember, to do
thicker with the tongue, you have to then connect the heart and that
in itself is quite a complicated procedure to bring the two
together. But it's easy because at least you will spend some time
doing it. When you start doing liquor with the with the heart,
you can easily distract yourself and you would be doing nothing,
you'd be just sitting there. Because the thicker of the heart
means your heart has to be there. If it's not there, we start
thinking of so many else because so many other things because we're
so distracted, then that means we're not going to be doing
anything. We've dedicated time but we're not doing anything. There is
no name of Allah is not being taken. But when you're doing it
with your tongue. At least you're you're taking the name of Allah,
you're spitting the test B if you want to say that or you're
clicking the TSP whatever you're using. So you're saying
Subhanallah Al hamdu lillah Allahu Akbar Allah Allah, Allah, Allah
Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, we may be
thinking about something else, he may be very mechanical, but at
least some parts of the body is engaged. So that's why he's saying
that mostly the people at the beginning at the office, when they
start off, they will generally start off with thicker of the
tongue and that's why most study because they do that, whether that
be the shadowy or the hello to I'm assuming, and also the Chishti etc
they start to with the tongue only later do they say okay, you stop
that now. Because mashallah vicar has become a nature to you part
part of your nature. So now it's okay for you to do it with your
heart. Because you will be focused with your heart, you can actually
sit down and concentrate, because we've learned to focus on the name
of Allah by repeating it so many times, because when you repeat
something so many times, there's many benefits to it, you hear it,
there's a benefit of hearing it, there's a benefit of you repeating
some something so many times to become familiar with it. And
you're taking the name of Allah, the name of Allah in itself is
just so powerful that even if it's said with heedlessness, it still
has a benefit. So it's still the Name of Allah, that's very
beneficial. So that's why he's saying that this is the people of
the beginning, they'll generally start with the tongue for antibody
he motor to the crib in the sunny Marta colluvial, who do the bill
called, because the main maksud. And the main objective is the
heart is saying that it is incumbent upon them to remain
regular on
Remembrance with their tongue, but while forcing focus with their
heart, while trying their best to keep focus with their hearts. So
you can see he's acknowledging the fact that that's going to be
difficult.
That's going to be difficult in the sense that it might be
difficult to keep your heart focused all the time you will do
it and then you'll drift away and then you'll bite your tongue will
still be moving. Right Lai Lai, la la la la la la la, la, la, la, la
la. And then you'll think of and then you'll come back because it
will remind you one of the benefits of the suite, that's what
I find it you're doing thicker on your on your fingers, which is
often which is superior. The reason why it's superior is
because that's how the prophets Allah lowson recommended, right?
There's a whole way of counting, they will do it on their fingers.
But the speed cannot be called an in a reprehensible innovation at
all, because just the tool at the end of the day, I know some Sufi
tricks, like for example, the delta V etc. They were it. Right?
They were the they were it, and then some, I guess when some get
some people seem to get freaked out about it when they see all of
these really fancy large displays. And people just like insisting on
them, whereas might just be kissing it and so on and so forth.
Not to say I wouldn't say it's haram to kiss at SP either. If
that's something that's benefiting and you want to kiss your you want
to kiss something that benefits you. There's nothing wrong with
that. I don't see, if you want to kiss your phone, you can do that.
It's a bit absurd. But if you want to do that, you could probably do
that as well. It'd be absurd anyway. Right. But if the vicar is
basically the idea of those who do those things, they're saying that
the sphere has helped us so much. It's been my tool of the trade.
This is what I've, it's like saying that, you know, this, these
are the tools that I've made my money with. This is the tool that
I've developed my Eman with, so why should I you know, what, why
should I disrespect it? But I mean, again, what is disrespect?
Right? So for example, if you look at a lot of the tea journeys of,
of West Africa, right, they they use a lot of speed and big ones,
right generally, and everybody has at the speed and the thought the
rhetoric or the way they use the speed is quite interesting as
well, that they don't necessarily go beat by beat. The idea is that
you just go over the supply forget there's a term they have, and they
just pass the beads along and however long that takes, they've
got a different way to do it. Then when they get up for prayer, they
just throw the beads down. So then before the prayer, when they will
get up and they've done that SP you'll just hear all this cash
All right, everybody throws the beads down. Now some people might
consider that to be disrespectful that you throwing it the speed
down, but for them to speak is like second nature and that's not
disrespect. That's the way they do it.
So these are you have to understand that there's no hard
and fast rules about these things as long as you consider it, that
it is a tool. Once you start considering that this this be
sorry, the using the Subha. The beads is specific Asana like that,
although there's even a mention of beads in the Sunnah. Not
necessarily strong beads. But the wife of the Prophet saw some
jewelry or the Allahu Anhu was sitting there. And process went
out for prayer. She came back, he came back and he said, You're
still I said, Then he gave her a do archery. But he said,
basically, she was using beads. It's just for counting, that's all
it is, is literally just for counting. That's all it is. So
it's supposed to be. But I said because of certain Sufi clerics.
It's such a greater emphasis on it, people get an aversion from
these things. This happens often, right? One of the reasons why some
people criticize for a while are among more than they would
criticize as Ali's book. So
today I'm talking about or even AbdulKareem some of his books is
just because of the insistence that some people perceive some of
the bigger brother showing to the Fidella man and nothing else.
Right? There's a reason why they do that is just so that, you know,
at least they've got one nice sort of one particular syllabus, that's
their reasoning, but then some WD brothers who are not very
not very educated about that they may they may kind of see it as the
second most sacred book after after the Quran, so that when
others see that, right, maybe for them it is it's helped them more
than anybody else. And that's fine, right? Because it has Hadith
in there. So you're not saying this replacing it.
So then when people see that they get a version too and it's like
criticizing something, generally think people are going to
criticize something that they see others
maybe over emphasizing or they misunderstand other to over
emphasize that's generally the way society works. And we have to be
careful that we don't fall into that same kind of problem, but
these things will exist like that. Whereas even look at him. He uses
the if narrations right, Imam Muhammad Muhammad is Muslim and
has died narration week narrations, but Imam Buhari has
weak narrations not in his main book, but in his other books. So
people don't look at it like that. That's just that's just to clarify
something. Anyway, let's get back here said it is necessary for him,
incumbent upon him to remain perpetual, and regular upon the
vicar of his tongue, in whatever it has to be his doing, while
forcing his heart to be present, had diacetyl prodotta V Earth and
lo until presence will eventually become second nature to him. So
every time that he does the speed and you we will be able to insha
Allah
close out everything else.
May Allah give us that day because that's one of our biggest
challenges is that while I took with vikhroli would you deliver
for Latifi and a person he's saying this is this is really
proper, practical advice. Do not abandon liquor. He should not
abandon liquor just because he finds heedlessness in the
inattentiveness he says there's no point me doing vicar of Allah
because I can't get focused. I started doing my thicker and I'm
thinking about everything. He said
don't abandon thicker because of that because at least get yourself
used to repeating the name of Allah, even with your tongue.
That's the first stage this is all about stages. Foley Rob further
route by decree Maha flatten your Pharaoh who Illa decree Malcador
because
perhaps, or very shortly, you could say, vicar, remembrance of
Allah done with complete inattentiveness will eventually
lead him to remembrance with attentiveness.
You can't jump into doing liquor and being attentive, straight away
for most people. We're just not used to it. There's two
components, let's just say there's actually three components start
with one component to try to get all three together. It's
complicated. So start with remembering, just taking La ilaha
illallah La La ilaha illAllah La ilaha illAllah. Even if the my
mind drifts away, say say I want to do it for 10 minutes, or say I
want to do it 100 times. Whether you you insist on it, whether you
give yourself a number or whether you give yourself a certain amount
of time, whether I drift away in that whether I've got attention,
no attention, I'm going to do it. I'm still being rewarded for that.
Remember that there's still a reward for that. And it's our
training in sha Allah for the hood when a robber decreed man who then
eventually
your remembrance with attentiveness and presence, your
Pharaoh who Illa Vickery, Mal, reberty, and mercy will mathcore
will raise him from the remembrance of Allah subhana wa.
So right now he's basically doing remembrance of Allah. And
eventually he's got to being attentive. Now, he may be
attentive, but there may be still other things that he thinks about.
He may focus on Allah. But there's still other things, saying that
eventually that will lead him to a remembrance with them total.
In total, would you call it abandonment of everybody but Allah
subhanaw taala. That's the third stage.
Right? Eventually, that is the third stage that eventually you
will think of nothing else and it will be purely. Allah subhanaw
taala. For either herb I'm see, well, my school is still raw
coffee or any bottled water. When he becomes absent? Yes, when he
becomes absent from everything other than the remembered one,
that's Allah. Right? If when, finally, when a person is absent
from everything, but the one who he's remembering, then he will
become engrossed.
In the sea of oneness, in the ocean of oneness, that's when he
will become stuck in the sea of the Divine unity. That's when you
can say, I've got pure Divine unity, I finally declared Allah to
be one properly, because now nothing else is coming. When I
think of Allah. You see that? Like, now I can just think of
Allah alone. I don't have to think of anything else besides nothing
else is, how can that happen? It can only happen if we, if the
focus grows on Allah, and attachment to everything else
decreases. Otherwise, as if we have attachment to things, it's
going to keep coming into our mind. That's the way our
relationship with things work, our mind is just like that.
It's only when something dominates the mind that everything else has
to leave, because the focus becomes one.
And that's why one wonderful poem in Urdu,
which is by this hijama zoob, his name was one of Monash every time
he was Khalifa us. And he said, he wrote a poem, he said, How
determine they'll say Rossett hogi, up to Agia. Up to Hello,
Toby. As such, so wonderful. It encapsulates this whole idea. So
he's talking to Allah subhanaw taala. And he's saying, finally,
he's saying how determina Dil Se rowset. Okay, basically, all other
desires, have now finally disappeared, they've left, they've
departed. They were camping out in my heart all this time, they've
made a home's there that basically set up, set up businesses and
everything in my heart. And finally, I've managed to evict
everything, I've cleared it all out. Tenants are all gone. Now I
can sell this property to you, basically. So you're saying that
everything has finally departed, every other desire of the world
has departed. Now come in. Now there is solitudes it's only
placed for you now. But that cannot, you know, if we're waiting
for that to happen without starting with the other
components, it's not going to happen.
That's why he's saying you need to start and force yourself to sit
down and do vicar for 1520 minutes.
Most people give up one program, I went to this question that one of
the sisters sent was that I don't feel any pleasure in my prayer. I
don't feel any thing in my prayer. So I gave it up.
My approach is that I don't feel anything either. But I'm keep
trying. Right? You have to keep trying. It's not something easy.
That's why we pray five times a day. So we have to pray lifelong.
Because it's a training. Eventually you will read
somewhere. But that's the idea. We should read somewhere.
Allahu Akbar, for either us all but I mercy will not stop raka fee
is the battle rather. So when when everything else does when he does
become absent of everything else and he will eventually engross
himself into pure into the pure ocean of oneness for your cereal
called Mahina, even beta rabita Allah and that is when his heart
will eventually become the house of Allah, the house of the Lord.
That is when he will become the house of the Lord. House of the
Lord, obviously, not physically speaking, is is that eventually
Allah will consider it to be a worthy place for us to be gaining
his presence in our hearts. That feeling of presence. It's worthy.
Now, it's not impure anymore.
It's not hypocritical anymore.
For you
In short, one who zikr mean lady costume, you know what the most
beautiful part of it is then. So all these efforts, and then you
get spontaneous vicar from the heart. That's what he says. So
then after that remembrance will just originate and emerge and beat
from the heart without even intended intention. Because we've
got it so used to it, that now it just does remembrance without us
having to make it do remembrance. While at the border, without any
kind of reflection, let him discharge the Hebrew he were just
me, because now vicar has completely become infused with his
spirit and his body. But it has to go through the heart.
You could put, basically, you could put the cord all over your
body, right? You could do all sorts like you can write and
everything. But if it's not in the heart, it's no it's no way you can
carry big books of it. But it's not it has to be in the heart,
then that is where it's supplied to the rest of the body.
Otherwise, it's not.
Now he's saying here that he's going more specific into the
remembrance of the of the tongue. He's saying what Anwar Vickery,
Lissoni cathedra. There are obviously many, many forms of
remembrance of Allah with the tongue, there's so many formulas,
right? And there's so many ways as well. What we're sorry minha among
them, obviously, this this B, which is to sit and glorify Allah,
which basically means that our Allah, you are blameless, you are
completely without defects. You're completely without fault. You are
high above all forms of weaknesses. That's essentially
what SB means. What that we're to glorify Allah, you're the
greatest. You are the mightiest you're the most revered. What Tila
water Quran is one great vicar of Allah.
Because he's got so many things Allah speaking it's his word. So
we're reading his message. While he did that a number of others was
Raha Ijarah button we'll move today. However, what is the most
effective one for the beginner?
Is La ilaha illAllah
La ilaha IL Allah even separate from Muhammad Rasool Allah, so
just La ilaha IL Allah, that is the most effective one, especially
for a beginner just to repeat that it's the most effective and it is
of Duluth because the prophets are awesome said it's the superior
they can anyway, move further tonight Muhammad Rasool Allah, you
know, separate from the second part Muhammad Rasool Allah, Allah
tacky female idol Hutton, except when you're ending, so you keep
saying La ilaha illa Allah so if you're doing it for 10 minutes,
you're doing it 200 times 500 times, then what you do is you end
with Muhammad Rasool Allah, but you repeat just La ilaha illAllah.
And again, if you're in a tariqa, and if you have your own way, then
that's what you stick to, is just saying this seems to be the
hallway at the this seems to be the Hello TOA. This seems to be
the shadow video where I'm assuming because he mentioned them
later. And this is definitely the Chishti way as well. That you keep
saying La la la la is also actually the next one the way in
to have the authority you say La Ilaha illa Allah and then you end
with Muhammad Rasool Allah at the end. Right. So that seems to be
quite,
it seems like quite an agreed upon idea, at least in many orders for
either or other hartham When you want to end your thicker 100 times
500 times or after five minutes or 20 minutes, then cutter maybe you
finish with Muhammad Rasool Allah.
Right Mohamed that you can't avoid that you can't abandon that has to
be there.
Well, if you bought the total Kisha the New Year's Kuru ha Allah
ROTC kilometer Sana he's mentioning that it seems like the
shoddy technique was very popular at the time. It's one of the most
famous study cars in the world along with the Naqshbandi and the
GSD are in the subcontinent. Right? So he says well, he bought
they took a chandelier and now we have Corolla equilibria we had
that either they've got a wider who in some of the shadowy orders
because Michelle did is have kind of split up into various shows
they did their coffee and Cheveley I forget the other ones the other
week but otherwise they also share these I think if I remember
correctly, so the they actually they actually not sure that they
actually start from Korea. They're all sub branches of the Korea
that's really what it is. Right? But the Kadri is do a different
type of thicker to the now the chandelier that's because one of
the shakes in between, you know,
found a different way to do it. That's essentially why it is
right.
Wolfie bought the Toro so he's saying that in some of them. They
do Mohammad Rasool Allah at the end of every 100 Lyda Hill Allah.
He says all of this is if you're going to do it alone, Amma either
vichara Majima at Invalides Kuru ha Illa and they'll hurt me my
honey. Of course if you're doing Vickery people he's talking about
more of a collective thicker
so they do that in some topics but they do a collective they got
everything laid Isla together, right. So in that case, then
obviously you
You don't want to do some Muhammad Rasul Allah separately by
yourself. You do it with others, it's just showing them if that's
what you're doing, when he heard that donnager Alibaba total kill
mohammedia and an empty Saudi Alia that's why pretty much all of the
Muhammadiyah orders all of the orders, they have all pretty much
agreed that this is what you sufficed with firstlight ilaha
illa loans for either come metastatic fee that come with a
sonic file of the loan your doom America, Muhammad Rasool Allah,
Allah says that later on when La ilaha illa, Allah has penetrated
then after that you were generous Allah, Allah in Allah, Muhammad
Rasul Allah, so you will do both of them afterwards. Well after
Hanaa is in HD, while in fact, now you don't have to necessarily go
by this because this is he's talking according to a certain
path, right? You do according to what you've been told. Right? Well
after Hina in HDMI will be delivered to the Quran said now
it's superior to actually focus and just engross yourself in the
tiller or the Quran, Lee at the Haluk v. So that you can now take
on the color of the Quran, you can take on the character of the
Quran. So when you release it, when you read Quran without love
for Allah in your heart without
Allah having found a place in the heart, or as making a place for
Allah, then the Quran is not, we're not going to get the same
from the Quran. So you're saying that prepare your heart first,
with the remembrance of Allah. And then after that, when you actually
do read the Quran, then you can take the benefits. And if somebody
you see if people follow their triggers properly, then they can
actually come out of it with
full,
full focus on Allah subhanaw taala, but also with a focus on
their character, because character is very important. Otherwise, it's
going to be very detrimental if we don't have good character, because
we're breaking up with people, we causing offenses to people that is
going to effect spiritually, it's very difficult to not be effective
spiritually. If we can't have good luck and show good character with
other people, that's very, very important. You need to learn that
through the tiller of the Quran, what to follow either human or
animal element ladonia mean Assadi and also the more Quran then you
read, the more knowledge will be
directly
the more knowledge and secrets of direct knowledge from Allah
subhanaw taala will be opened up to your heart right you will
actually start seeing things for what they are eventually
the confusions of why we get tempted to do other things
hopefully will get cut away will disappear and we'll see hopefully
start seeing things for what they are for inlandia Couldn't yeah
father Quran as if somebody
doesn't memorize the Quran or can't read the Quran maybe in what
you do. So you saying that you struggle BC Ma, he made me your
CRO, then listen to it, listen to somebody reading it, that's
beneficial as well if you focus on listening to it, not just because
he's got a good tune for because you can understand what they're
saying. Now he is talking to Arabs, assuming they understand
the meaning already Egyptians, right? They would as you'd assume.
So as the who are not originally Arab who don't understand Arabic,
we've got a big task ahead of us to at least try to understand some
of it right so that we can actually benefit from it like
this. Wayne cannot carry now. You see he he mashallah he really
responds to a question that whatever what about if the carry
who's reading is not reading with focus? Right, he's Accardi who
wants to show off in his reading, for example, right? So he's saying
that we're in Colonel Cody so he will often even if the carry
himself is heedless, uh, he's not focusing on his reading of course,
you can read from somebody who really understands their reading
and was really focused that's going to have more effect but he
says that no, he wants to make it easy for us so like where you're
gonna find people like that from you may not be easy for you to
find so listen to
listen to the quarry read even if they're reading with negligence
wear cool armor. But he says we're calling Mr. Allah had the caller
ID fibula he Tala Sadie Omar ibn Wilford Rhodiola one he says. And
the situation in that case will be just like, which is depicted in
the following poem of the RF biller say the Almighty God forbid
we read this before yeah oh the sad mean heavy big tourney mean
yeah aka sad mean heavy Vijay teeny very solid in a day at
Habitat a toughy for Semitic to man and this Mary. When other
tamale um, don't worry. We're out of tomorrow. I'm Daddy fee, which
basically means that Oh sister of salad. From my beloved, you
brought me a letter. So oak decided came the sister of salad
came with a letter from his beloved whoever that is. I don't
know who that is. Right. And he says, You gave it to me with great
kindness. Right you delivered it with great kindness but you don't
know what's inside it you saying?
So I heard what you didn't hear, I saw what you did not see. And I
learned from it what you did not learn, because it wasn't a letter
for years for me. So he's saying basically, that Allah will
specifically target you with messages from the Quran. Right?
When you open it and read it for yourself with the right presence
of mind, then what you you will see things for others. Now you
can't start claiming that you're the man do something tomorrow
because of that. That's not the point here is just saying that
Allah will give you the gifts through the Quran, sha Allah, that
was all in in in brief, that was basically what he talked about
vicar of the time. And I think that's easy to put into action.
But in our lifetimes, the practical way to do this
is that to get something into our daily schedules, which are already
very busy, because now we have a massive component of social media
that you can actually download apps on on your phone nowadays,
which actually, I think Apple has it by default, I think.
Otherwise, you can get third party apps, which basically tell you at
the end of the day, a week or whatever how much you've been on
there. And you'd be surprised how many hours of your day I think the
average could be four to five hours a day is a huge amount of
time for some people. All right. So we've got our time is all taken
up, our time is all taken up, all taken up. Nobody's nobody has time
anymore, because we don't have enough time because of that. So
basically, I think the idea is that if we can incorporate certain
of God into our life by marrying them up with a certain thing we do
every day.
So for example, if you are going to work by driving or by public
transport, then you are going to dedicate that I'm going to read
your scene on that. And then we're going to do my 100 distinct
foreign 100 Salawat. And that time, right, if you're biking to
work is the same Yeah, I'm going to get on my bike, I'm going to do
my doll for prediction, and then I'm going to do my acid. What then
happens is that every time you get on your bike, you're going to
eventually start doing that. It'll become second nature, you'll have
to force yourself to do it the first few times. But eventually,
you'll just do it.
You won't have to think about it. Because once it gets into your
routine, then it becomes normal. The only issue with that, right?
The only issue with that is that when you don't have to go to work,
right? Like on a Saturday, Sunday, then you won't do it. Because it's
so closely linked to your biking to work or your right to work or
your drive to work or whatever. But not bad five days a week at
least. Right? It's still not bad. Do you see what I'm saying. The
other thing is that when you first get up in the morning and you if
you're getting up at 100 If you're getting a fish or whatever it is
then you know again I need to get up and I need to have this time
I'm going to sit and read a bit of Quran or I'm going to do this or
the last thing at night I'm gonna do so
in the first if you can marry it to a certain act. So for example,
the other thing is that there's so many other things we need to do
during the day and other UScar we can do like Subhanallah we Hamdi
Subhan Allah and Alim
La ilaha illallah wa sallahu la sharika lah Hunkeler hamdu Lillahi
wa ala coalition in ko the yo yo you meet or other coalition
because if you do that 100 times a day, you get 100 status raised you
get 100 reward, you get 100 sins forgiven, you get 10 the reward of
freeing 10 slaves, huge amount of reward. When can you do that then?
So for example, if you're used to going for prayer,
right, whether that be multiple Asia on the way back, then then
just incorporate that then just fit it slot it into different
things of the day.
Right? That helps a lot. That helps a lot. So may Allah subhanaw
taala give us Stovic. So the second thing which he does talks
about just briefly, he talks about the second day, which is the vicar
of the heart. So he says here, what we're shutting you out of
barbini Hyatt, generally for most Sufi orders, vicar of the heart is
going to be
the practice of the people who are advanced, who have gone beyond the
initial struggles and the on the higher levels. Women who are
thicker feet, but you know now how do you do think of the heart? What
is the core of the heart? What exactly do you sit and think
about?
Right? So what exactly I mean, do you sit and think about Allah?
What do you think of if you're thinking about Allah, it's, that
will probably be actually difficult to do because you don't
want to think about Allah, because you're going to start thinking of
something physical, and that's wrong. So basically, the idea is
that you think of his name, right? You take his name, you take his
muscle card, you consider his maloca. We consider our status we
consider our sins we consider our are we thanking Allah how the net
amount of Allah there's so many things. Anyway, I'll leave it to
him to discuss he says that part of that is reflection. Oh,
Over the wonderful creation, the wonder is creation of Allah.
Sit down and just consider the wonderful creation. Right? Not the
next product you want to buy, that's also creation of Allah. But
that's for different reasons.
What are the Maha Mudra? Kabbalah TV where
he says he's got a whole section about various types of Morocco. So
we'll leave it for that, right. But then he says we're about
now, because what he's done is he's said that I'm going to give
you a totally separate section on Morocco, but on meditations. And
then what he does is he ends this 10 principles,
the 10 principles that he's been discussing, he ends the 10
principles. So he says, we're about the home year ODL, also the
accelerometer data about Lumia Acle. We talked about 10
principles, then we he's saying that there are some people who
consider that there are more than 10 principles. So these are the
well known 10 principles that we did. I mean, maybe it's a good
idea if we just go through them, just to remind us because it has
been a while, several sessions, we've done this. So
the first one was, what
was the first principle, the main one is sober repentance, you have
to shed the sin first, you know, you had to shed the load first.
The first one was repentance. Number two was thanks for whatever
we have grateful gratitude, sugar, and the third was sober, because
the path is now going to be difficult. So it's patience. And
the fourth was, to be satisfied with whatever Allah that's
basically carrying on from somewhere, isn't it to be
satisfied with how Allah has made us and given us what Allah has
given us, is basically satisfaction with the decree of
Allah. And number five, then was to basically find and follow a, an
accomplished guide and teacher. So he had a long discussion on that
one, that was number five, then number six was, you will have to
go through hunger, sometimes, the fasting, as we discussed, fasting
and hunger in general, because too much food causes problems. And
number seven, was Ursula, which is you're also going to have to
practice some kind of solitudes.
So cut away your relationship to many things, and then ate silence.
Even when you're with people, you don't talk as much silence. And
even when you're not with people, you don't talk too much on the
phone, as we said, as well. Number nine was a Nokia mobile as hard,
which is to stand up at nights to pray.
Over and above the five daily prayers, and number 10 was
the vicar of Allah, de facto and reflection. So he's saying that
some people say that there's actually more than 10 And some
people say there is there's less, again, they're all important.
We'll fill Hachiko. kulula Omotola with Domina, right in reality,
they all necessary but we're under to her what you have to do if we
want to make this just basically distill this down on the to her
the most important pillars of a vicar was said Kvitova Jew is
remembrance of Allah you can't do without that and having a sincere
focus. Once we lose the sincerity and focus then it just becomes a
ritual. So sincerity and focus, along with complete opposition to
the desires of the soul.
Those are the three absolute basics. Focus without focus, we
can't get anything. Number two vicar of Allah to bring some good
into us and Mahalo for which is opposition to the shower. Or more
closer to Subhan Allah the shaking Kermit that's the fourth point,
which is to endure patience or endure patiently at the hands of
an accomplished guides. Right? That's to endure patiently, it's
going to be tough. It's going to go against our knifes
is going to tell us to do things which are not easy sometimes. And
we're doing it even if we even if some part of that is maybe a bit
wrong, not haram is something maybe not as best as it could be.
At least because you're doing it for the sake of Allah. You you
could be forgiven for that by Allah subhanho wa Taala and Allah
subhanaw taala give will give blessing. Mage, Danny Ben.
Lisa, it will Assam but this is the most important thing he says
is that you while abandoning
all types of sins kabbah at house he survived both the major and
minor sins, vahidi her both the manifest and apparent ones like
cattle killing fornication, drinking wine and toxic ones
eating haram riba
backbiting Mima tail bearing Nether Allah Maha Raman, Vedic
looking at the Haram, viewing the Haram, that which is unlawful and
everything else, and also the internal ones
like jealousy,
hatred,
arrogance, ostentation, narcissism, pride, miserliness.
hypocrisy, love of position, love of leadership, all of these things
need to come out otherwise they just constantly create a problem.
So that was just to end the 10 principles. So inshallah that ends
the 10 principles there but then he's got as I said, a special
section on Al maraca artha Ruha which basically, is speaking about
the various types of meditations and then benefits, and then he's
got a small section in Doha, and
and then he ends the section so inshallah maybe another two
sessions and this will be inshallah completed, but may Allah
also help it to complete our beginning to start in sha Allah as
well. I heard that word. And Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen
Allahumma in the Santa Monica Santa Barbara, they have an
agenda, a Quran, Allah, they are here for you the rock medical
mysteries Allah McGahern Nana yam and learned Subhana cating now
condemning avoiding mean a lot of misunderstanding right so you've
been with Maura and you say you've been on Mohammed or vertical
Salam. O Allah we asked you for Your Mercy of Allah we ask You for
Your forgiveness of Allah we ask you for your special your special
attention of Allah grant us your blessings, Grant us your
forgiveness. All those things we have committed all our problems
our law remove them purify our hearts of Allah, purify our hearts
of Allah allow us to be closer to you. of Allah grant us the ability
to remember you of Allah grant us the ability to have our folk
hearts focused on you. Have Allah grant us your remembrance to be
spontaneous from our heart. Now Allah we ask that you allow us to
only be focused on you and to take our focus away and our engrossment
away from everything else. Oh Allah we ask that you make our
hearts those which you which you Your presence is found in and
Allah we ask You for protection from a heedless heart from a
negligent heart from a weak heart that is filled with the love of
everything else. Oh Allah grant us blessing in our time. Allah allow
us to discipline our time, allow us to discipline ourselves of
Allah.
Shall we you mercy upon this entire Ummah, our brothers and
sisters around the world, wherever they have suffered, wherever they
have been persecuted, wherever they have been oppressed, oh Allah
only, you know, best way whatever is happening is happening. But Oh
Allah, we ask that you allow us to stand up to our responsibilities.
And you grant us the tofi can divine enablement to do that which
is correct, and to be forces of good in this world, and to help
bring back humanity to the human being. And Oh Allah, all of those
who have died in the recent catastrophes of Allah We ask that
you grant them genital filled dose of Allah, they were in the masjid
so they were fees to be the law. They were in the PA in your path
of Allah accept them and grant them sincerity. And Oh Allah,
those who they've left behind the whole Muslim immigrant, the whole
Muslim Ummah beautiful patients. Oh Allah, we ask that You grant us
a great pleasure and reward and our love for an allow us to stand
up to the task. And Allah we ask that you protect us and our
families and our children and the entire ummah. And oh Allah above
all you write us to be of those who will be close to your
prophets, and to be in the genital for those and oh Allah protect our
children from all of the difficulties and the challenges
that we are facing out there. And Oh Allah, we ask that you guide us
right and do not allow us ever to fall to fall down and remain down
but to keep us up and to make us of those who are thankful to you
and grateful to you. Oh, Allah bless all of those who are here,
those who are listening, Oh Allah, those who will listen and do not
allow us to turn away from this gathering without being completely
forgiven. So how not to become a biller is that you and I'll see
phone was salam Al Hamdulillah